I got a site submitted to google... Im planning on changing what the site does.. Is there a way to change the descripting google has for my site?

thanks

Originally posted by insaneraptor
I got a site submitted to google... Im planning on changing what the site does.. Is there a way to change the descripting google has for my site? Which description? If you're talking about the "Google Directory," that data comes from dmoz.org (the Open Directory Project) -- so you'd have to get them to change it. If you're talking about the "regular" Google listings, they come from what was indexed in crawling your site. If you change the site, the listing will get refreshed with the next monthly update.

i have no idea..
this is what i mean
when i search for my site on google.. and i find it, it says something about vbulletin and stuff...
Iwant it to say something different.. any idea how?

anyone?

It says to remove the site from the directory and resubmit it I believe.

Originally posted by insaneraptor
i search for my site on google.. and i find it, it says something about vbulletin and stuff...
Iwant it to say something different.. any idea how? Again, what is shown on the regular Google listings is what they have indexed from spidering each site. The index is updated approximately once a month, so any changes to your pages will be reflected in a future update.

What's shown generally will change depending also on the search query -- Google shows "snippets" of page text that contain the search terms.

JayC's got it. Google spiders and reindexes your site about once a month once you're in it. It's descriptions change per how your site is found. Most often it'll be the snippets that show occurances of the search term in your site. It might be your meta description if someone just searches for your URL directly, but this meta tag isn't used for anything else.

So, I don't know what there is to change with Google, since it does everything itself automatically, depending upon how the site was searched for, you don't really have much control over your description.

I looked at my own site listings and a few others.

Google seems to read text from the page in question--it doesn't seem to always take the first text but usually what is near the top of the page being shown.

I suggest you look at that and perhaps move the text you want near the top and put what you don't want lower on the page.

Edit - Look at #4 and #5 particularly:
http://www.google.com/webmasters/3.html

ok cool! tahts great :)
thx mucho!

Originally posted by Gordo
Google seems to read text from the page in question--it doesn't seem to always take the first text but usually what is near the top of the page being shown. It's generally the first occurence, or the first few occurences, of the search term within the page text.

A recent change is that if the term that's searched for is in the meta description of the page, that description may appear instead of the page snippets.